Police Question Family In Man's Fatal Stabbing

HAMPTON — A 14-year-old girl and a woman were being questioned late Wednesday about the fatal stabbing of the teen-ager's stepfather.

Police identified the victim as Thaddeus Hayes, 37. Police Sgt. Jeff Walden said the woman was the victim's wife.

Waldensaid officers and medics were called to a two-story house at 506 Brockridge Hunt Drive in the Hunt Club section off Todds Lane about 8:30 p.m. He said a 911 call from the house had reported the stabbing.

An ambulance took Hayes to Riverside Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Walden said officers found the woman, her 14- year-old daughter and a stepson of Hayes', about 10, in the house.

Detectives were still trying to determine what happened, Walden said, but that indications were the man and woman had argued; "what brought it on we're still investigating." He said the girl became involved at some point and allegedly stabbed Hayes.

A neighbor, Jenni Horner, said the victim had lived in the house about 10 years and that she believed he was a painter at Newport News Shipbuilding.

David Chernicky can be reached at 247-4743 or by e-mail at dchernicky@dailypress.com